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If only we'd had this kind of compute before we launched Hubble Fujitsu says its supercomputing cloud is ready for action, after pitting the Arm-based system against a series of complex electromagnetic interference (EMI) simulations.…

Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services An emerging and fast-growing threat group is using a unique business model to offer cybercriminals a broad range of services that span from leaked databases and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to hacking scripts and, in the future, potentially ransomware.…

A 9% levy on content slingers will stand in The Windy City – are others next? A lawsuit settled last week between Apple and Chicago will be meaningful for streaming services around the US.…

The race for first space launch from UK soil (or airspace) continues The UK's Civilian Aviation Authority has launched a public consultation on the environmental effects of the plans of Virgin Orbit at a base on the southwest coast of England.…

If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark There are some complexities involved in upgrading what the Reg FOSS desk suspects may be the world's oldest running Linux installation: an OS install dating back to 1993.…

Plus: Ukrainian fake news and Uber admits covering up data breach In Brief Google's legally fraught journey to buy cybersecurity business Mandiant is in its final stretch, with the US Department of Justice closing its investigation and giving the go-ahead for the sale to proceed.…

Known Issue Rollback for affected Windows 11 users Microsoft has admitted its last Patch Tuesday (and update previews) broke the Start Menu for some Windows 11 users and issued a Known Issue Rollback to solve the problem.…

Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer) Microsoft has blamed "operator error" for the multi-hour outage of its cloud SQL Server in Europe last week.…

US looks forward to 8% increase while consumer prices spike around the globe Oracle support prices are set to rise by 8 percent in the US, and the company will also impose increases commensurate with inflation in other regions.…

Cost of optical cable more than doubles in 16 months as demand goes through roof The price of fiber optic cables is shooting up, more than doubling in just 16 months due to massive demand from datacenter and network providers with supply shortfall exacerbated by disruption in production.…

If you build it they will come Unless you happen to be running a cloud or hyperscale datacenter, Intel’s infrastructure processing units (IPU) probably aren’t for you, at least not yet.…

Many of last week's security stories tell the same tale Opinion The calls are coming from inside the house! Lately, Outlook users have been getting their own version of this classic urban horror myth. The email system is alerting them to suspicious activity on their accounts, and helpfully providing the IP addresses responsible.…

Small market share there anyway or Indian regulatory crackdown? Chinese majority state-owned smartphone company Honor is pulling its team out of India, CEO Zhao Ming has confirmed.…

British government wants to boost innovation but lawyers warn of risk to adequacy ruling Browsers will need to satisfy two different data regimes in Europe under UK legislation proposed to replace EU laws.…

This will be the x86 giant's first major foundry customer Intel will manufacture chips for Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek, making the latter the first major silicon customer for Intel's revitalized contract chip manufacturing business.…

Or: How to give 1,000 workers an extended lunchbreak Who, Me? A warning in this week's edition of Who, Me? concerning the overuse of messaging and the dangers of a careless character or two. Or three.…

But don't get all 'Rise of the Machines' on this one – Russian media says the 'bot has played for years without problems A Russian chess robot has broken the finger of a child.…

Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems India's big four outsourcers are worried about rising labor costs and their impact on profits, according to their most recent quarterly financial statements.…

We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job The United States Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has initiated a program it hopes will create a portable muon generator.…

Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese South Korean authorities have taken issue with Facebook and Instagram's new terms and conditions, which come into effect on Tuesday, July 26.…

Claims Redmond still prices rivals out of the market even after allowances for Euro-clouds A senior exec at Amazon Web Services has accused Microsoft of making cosmetic licence changes to appease regulators, but continuing to ensure its wares are more expensive when run in rivals' clouds.…

Plus: Amazon and Alibaba risk Indonesia ban; Pegasus in Thailand; South Korea's semiconductor education surge; and more Asia In Brief Microsoft has ordered a review of its resilience regime for Microsoft 365 after finding an outage to the service in India was caused by "a physical fiber networking event" at a partner's edge datacenter location.…

Plus: How writers are using AI tools to help them write fiction more quickly In brief Google has reportedly fired Blake Lemoine, the engineer who was placed on administrative leave after insisting the web giant's LaMDA chatbot was sentient.…

It costs relatively next to nothing to hire devs on the other side of the planet Wondering where software developers are – or aren't – earning top dollar? Just look at a list of the leading outsourcers and their most popular outsourcing destinations. …

Just as NASA urged to reuse Musk hardware no more than five times A SpaceX flight sending the next bunch of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) has been pushed back a few weeks after the Falcon 9 rocket to be used for the journey was damaged during transportation.…

Con man blew victims' cash on antiques, artwork, other riches A crook who created a business called My Big Coin to cheat victims out of more than $6 million has been found guilty by a jury.…

Blockade against VBA scripts in downloaded files is back on by default Microsoft is trying to shut the door on a couple of routes cybercriminals have used to attack users and networks.…

Liquidity scams cost victims more than $70m, agents say The FBI has warned cryptocurrency owners and would-be owners about a scam involving phony liquidity mining that the bureau says has cost victims more than $70 million in combined losses since 2019.…

No, we're not reverting to steam power – lignin just makes great cathodes A Swedish-Finnish commercial partnership could be the first step toward commercially viable wood-derived batteries for electric vehicles.…

CEO claims 60 percent of deployments are new buyers. It may all depend on how you define deployment In a week when SAP lowered its profit outlook due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one analyst firm highlighted “deeper issues” with the global ERP vendor’s plans to move customers to its latest software.…

Foiled again, Team America Chinese semiconductor giant SMIC has reportedly been manufacturing 7-nanometer chips since last year, the best sign yet that China has found a way to develop advanced components despite US efforts to curb the country's homegrown silicon capabilities.…

Clinical systems 10 years old, new software due to go live next year Doctors at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, one of the UK's largest healthcare organizations, were this week left unable to access patient records and forced to cancel appointments following an IT outage caused by the extreme heatwave.…

Dell certifies certain models for Linux, but if yours isn't, all is not lost Some of the changes in modern kit, especially portables, seem to be intentionally obstructive to Linux users however you can mostly work around them.…

US datacenter demand holding up, floundering in China. Consumers? 'Spending money on other things' Seagate's share price plunged this morning on the back of a lower than expected financial forecast that signals more cautious tech spending amid buyers' fears of a sustained global economic slowdown.…

What to buy your favorite misanthrope: booze, choc, sports tickets or fewer stupid users? Tell us, please tell us All Mariah Carey wanted for Christmas was you. Freddie Mercury and Queen wanted a lot more. All in fact. But what will the league of sysadmins desire most when their Appreciation Day rolls round next week?…

Here on Earth, we bury our problems and simulate our way out of them later Over the course of four decades, global carbon dioxide emissions increased by 90 percent and it goes without saying, especially this summer week, that the impact is keenly felt.…

As British element of IPO is put on ice by SoftBank, Julia Hoggett says 'compelling case' remains The boss of the London Stock Exchange Group is refusing to give up on chip designer Arm listing its shares in the UK.…

Tried silicon substitutes but that effort fell flat. Literally and tonally A television interview on Thursday revealed an unexpected victim of the global semiconductor shortage: musical instrument-maker Yamaha.…

And who's listening to those MP3s instead of me? Something for the Weekend Billy Idol has run off with Madonna. That's the third time this year and it's getting annoying.…

Tribunal says broadband company failed to show it had been treated unfairly by regulator's decision Broadband company CityFibre has lost its appeal against an Ofcom decision that allowed Openreach to offer discounts for internet service providers (ISPs) to access its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) products.…

Hang on a minute. I've got a great idea On Call Friday is normally the end of the working week – unless you're one of those brave souls dangling from the end of a phone. Welcome to On Call.…

Levy and Robinson are at it again Comment Two notorious characters from the British security services have published a paper that once again suggests breaking end-to-end encryption would be a good thing for society. …

The alternative is a paid subscription service. What's the bet it's more expensive than the current offering? Microsoft has announced it will "sunset" the Windows Information Protection data leak prevention offering baked into its client operating system.…

National Security and Investment Act used to prevent export felt to have nasty defense implications The Government of the United Kingdom has used a national security law to block the licensing of locally-developed technology to a foreign entity, preventing a deal that would have provided a Chinese company with robot vision tech.…

Proposed working group would see Moscow's miltech conglomerate Rostec operate in Tehran Iran's Communications Ministry joined in a pledge with Russian state-owned defence and technology conglomerate Rostec to explore future collaboration in e-government, information security, and other areas.…

Billion-dollar fine for eight billion items lifted from clipboards, 107 million facial recognition files … and more The Cyberspace Administration of China has fined ride-sharing company DiDi global ¥8.026 billion ($1.2 billion) for more than 64 billion illegal acts of data collection that it says were carried out maliciously and threatened national security.…

When the next cloud datacenter fails, will your software go with it? Interview In the wake of Google and Oracle's UK datacenter meltdowns earlier this week, many users undoubtably discovered that deploying their apps in the cloud doesn't automatically make them immune to failure.…

Exec, his brother, and a pal raked in $1.5m in illicit gains, Feds claim A now-former Coinbase manager, his brother, and a friend were today charged with wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading scheme in the US.…

It now owns your store, your doctor, and your shopping history. What's next? Amazon is acquiring One Medical, a company operating a chain of primary care clinics, for $3.9 billion in an all-cash deal, as it ramps up efforts to expand its consumer healthcare offerings.…

Plus Mandiant, Cisco Talos uncover digital espionage US Cyber Command has disclosed 20 new strains of malware among the numerous software nasties and cyberattacks being used against Ukrainian targets over the last few months.…